Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high Montana country west of Yellowstone Park, a full moon, shining on the pine-covered mountains, etched the thin, black notch of canyon where the trout-filled Madison River winds away from Hebgen Lake. Near the canyon mouth, seven miles below the Montana Power Co.'s 87-ft.-high dam, Purley R. Bennett, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho truck driver, and his wife Irene had gone to sleep in their trailer. Outside, their three sons and daughter were rolled up in sleeping bags on the ground. At 11:30 p.m. an "indescribable" roar woke them all. What followed...
...camp had been, a huge slide of more than 7,500,000 tons of rock from the side of a 7,600-ft.-mountain had fallen into the canyon, sealing it from wall to wall for three-quarters of a mile and damming the Madison into a natural lake. Between the slide and Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night of terror as the ground shook beneath them. Elsewhere, wide fissures scarred roads and ranches where the main fault, cause of the quake, had dropped parts...
Diving in Austria's Toplitz Lake for counterfeit British currency printed by Nazis in World War II (TIME, Aug. 10), a salvage team came up with a dividend. Their catch: the personal files, diaries and identity cards of Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, who killed himself (poison) soon after British troops nabbed...
...peculiar breed willing to pay the price for loving danger. There was Bill Stead, 34, a Nevada rancher with a cowpoke's windburned face, whose legs and arms bear unhealed burns as souvenirs of a wild ride last March when his Maverick blew up at 175 m.p.h. on Lake Mead. Stead had coolly stuck to the boat: "Burns hurt a little more, but I'd rather have them than broken bones, and I've had both...
Jack Regas, last year's winning driver, was not even there: he was still in the hospital with severe head injuries suffered last month when he spun into a wall of water on Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Lake while driving Miss Bardahl. Taking Regas' seat in defending champion Hawaii Kai was Brien Wygle, 32, a Boeing test pilot, who was the first man to log 1,000 hours...